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Compound aims to be a one-stop shop for tech employees to manage their finances

TechCrunch

Gonen and Schein helped advise these individuals on a range of topics, from whether to exercise their stock options, to how to set up an estate plan, to diversification after an IPO. . Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein had both worked in the tech industry for a few years when they realized they lacked a clear understanding of their own finances.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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Off-the-shelf RATs Targeting Pakistan

AlienVault

PAFs first multinational air exercise ACES Meet 2017 concludes in Pakistan.doc. We’ve identified a number of spear phishing campaigns with Pakistani themed documents, likely targeting the region. These spear phishing emails use a mix of different openly available malware and document exploits for delivery. be and careers.fwo.com[.]pk

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Motivated Team Of Mission Focused Technologists From Software AG Wins Rapid Integration Challenge of Plugfest

CTOvision

By ChrisScott Plugfest is a new phenomenon in the national security technology community, where participants compete in judged evaluations showing how well (and fast) they can create trusted situational awareness in a chaotic/realistic scenario using off the shelf software and existing data sets/streams. Precious time is wasted.

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How Custom Healthcare Software Development Can Help Hospitals

Sunflower Lab

But not just any products, these custom software developments must offer specific features and services to properly serve healthcare providers—because when someone’s life is on the line, there’s no time to waste. The Importance of Custom Healthcare Software Development. Let’s face it, the world isn’t what it used to be.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations.

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Don’t queue for the ski jump if you don’t know how to ski

The Agile Manager

As a learning exercise, it is fantastic. Deploy some fintech and get these people off the payroll already. I keep a record of what I do on individual stones, on how I configure machines and the maintenance I perform on them, and for the totality of activities I do in the workshop each day. But mistakes are expensive.

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